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Other USA Apple.com iPhone Air /17/17 Pro/ 17 Max/ Pre-Release, Order And Delivery Thread
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My card was charged 20m ago for my Orange PM. Preparing to ship! 
Got excited when I saw a notification from UPS but realized that it was just my Amazon order.
It's so weird not having tracking this close to release day. My phone is "preparing to ship" and I have release day delivery for my order, still nothing in UPS. I'm sure everything is fine, but if they're doing 2nd day air, they have to ship by tomorrow afternoon/evening to make here in the PNW by Friday. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I believe they're shipping next day air, so I wouldn't worry until Thursday evening!
While nearly impossible it does happen that from time to time that an iPhone will slip through the cracks and get delivered early probably not this year because it’s coming straight from a US warehouse https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/02/iphone-x-picked-up-one-day-early/
That would make sense. I'm not worried, it's just weird not getting a shipping label from UPS yet, even if next day air.
My card was finally charged. 256gb Cosmic Orange Pro Max, but my order hasn't updated to shipping soon.
I got all excited when I saw a shipment from AI pop up in MyChoice a few minutes ago. It was just my husband’s new iPad lol. His 8th gen iPad has gotten rather slow and apps hanging/crashing more and more. It’s only a 32 Gig model and updating is sometimes a challenge due to space limitations.
Since we don't know the most stable, safest, etc etc method, I will choose the easiest—Migration for the win!
can you do iphone to iphone with a cable if one of the devices has lightning instead of USB-C?
edit: looks like yes based on: https://support.apple.com/en-us/117383?device-type=iphone but i wonder if the speed is lower when a non-USB-C phone is involved. probably so.
Pretty normal if you ordered directly from Apple.
Apple basically flies all of the iPhones to UPS World Port on planes where they come in on large pallets. At World Port those pallets are broken down and placed into individual boxes and shipped to us via UPS Next Day Air. Since World Port is UPS' central air hub they are hours away from every US mainland address by air.
You'll get a shipping notification and tracking number by Thursday night. It will show up on time on Friday.
Apple does it this way to make sure nothing is delivered early. Slips happen, but they are always by carriers or places like Best Buy who aren't as strict as Apple on protocols.
I never seem to with Apple. My AW Ultra 2 I got the label the day it was out for delivery, most years I only see my tracking info doing a reference number search in the past with my phone number.
ugh, I'm still at the processing stage. with a 9/19 date.
Just had a third package weighing 1.5 pounds show up in My Choice. Looks like they are shipping each of my items separately - Watch, Airpods, and Phone.
I've always ordered direct from Apple and had tracking available the weekend of or the Monday following pre-orders, this year seems they changed this. And yes, once the big shipment from factory arrives at the main hub state side, they hold it for a couple days to pack into delivery boxes there before shipping to regional hubs for final delivery. And I have had early delivery a couple times, just a day, but still early.
West Coast reporting in:
Preparing to Ship
Preparing to Ship
I've been on this train for a bit as well with preorders over multiple years.
It varies when you get a tracking number printed and showing up. Sometimes it is earlier in the cycle for some and later for others, but there is no movement on them until Thursday night. Even if you get them earlier. Apple has been pretty consistent over the years though. If you get a launch day in the store you'll get your phone on a UPS truck for launch day delivery.
There is nothing unusual about people having no tracking number yet or still showing as "processing".
You can review the previous threads if you care to. This happens every year.
Lightning (USB2, maxed out at 480 Mbps) is theoretically significantly slower. USB-C has a range of possibilities for speed, but sustained speed depends on a lot of variables beyond the cables such as heat.
I have a USB powered fan that i use to cool my phones when doing large data transfers, that helps a lot no matter what cable!
I always do a hard reset/forced restart (up volume, down volume, hold side button until apple appears on screen), to clear cache etc., before iOS updates or Migrations. Maybe it's voodoo, maybe not, but it has worked very well for me over many years.
When transferring phone to phone, you'll want to make sure both batteries are up to finishing the process. I guess you could have them on MagSafe chargers during the process, but you'd then want to make sure to keep them cool to optimize the process.
Have fun!
Nailed it. Agree totally. Sometime when you have nothing else cooking, there is a great video/YouTube touring the UPS Worldport, Louisville Kentucky. It is really amazing how they move and sort thousands of shipments arriving and departing daily. (Yeah, I know, I have to get a life).